Following the topic of live bass solos, I have to reach back into the Racer X archive and bring out my solo on Extreme Volume. For me, the best thing about this is to see my evolution when put under the improvised solo spotlight. The main difference between this solo and the solo I...

Thought I would do a Throwback Thursday post on a bass that I haven’t really covered here on PedalsAndEffects. That bass being my first ever Fender bass. When I moved back to Los Angeles in the 80’s, I was playing a Yamaha BB-800 bass which was Yamaha’s version of a Precision bass but the pickups were upside...

Today’s Throwback Thursday is to a moment when I was younger that solidified my drive to become a bass player. I know that a lot of musicians of my era know who Stanley Clarke is. When I was coming up, he and Jaco Pastorius were legends but I had found Stanley first. I was...

The Mothership Analog Synthesizer has seen some serious time on my pedalboards. I used it the last time The Mars Volta played Australia’s traveling summer festival, Big Day Out, when Muse was the headliner. Their crew asked me how I was getting the synth sounds that had the big low end. I’ll share with...